Do not push the flow downstream

*If we accept there is no "doer" then how would things get done? Wouldn't someone use this principle to justify laziness or escape life's responsibilities?*

The day you are born (and before) your heart knows to beat. Your mouth knows to suckle when your mother lifts it to her breast. You are not the “doer,” yet it gets done.

Soon, you can walk across the floor, and run across the field, though your legs know not how they move.

As a young man or woman, you see a beautiful potential partner, and for the first time, you feel a yearning, though you did not “do” yearning.

As an aging person, you feel hollow, and you yearn deeply for God, though the emptiness and yearning did not come from your “doing.”

Accepting, knowing, that you are not the “doer” is accepting & knowing you are a drop of water being carried by the river, indeed you are All the waters and the River Itself.

Yet you need not push the flow downstream.

It just flows.

You could use this truth to justify laziness and escape life responsibilities,

*But you won’t.*

Time after time, you will feel ‘callings,’ you will feel needs, you will feel choices you must choose and actions you must take.

And you will take them…if only to live another day.

The direct knowledge and clear awareness that you are not the “doer,” not the “pusher” of the river’s flow, not the “beater” of your heart or the “planter” of these feelings in you, will not stay your actions

Knowing you are not the “doer” only will allow you to rest in the apperception that all apparent choice & movement is unfolding naturally and spontaneously in the River of the Vast, the True non-locatable Doer.

And that you need never force, nor resist, the Flow.

“Nature never hurries, nor acts of its own volition, yet all things are accomplished.” Lao Tze

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